Continuing with the theme of the oppressor-oppressed paradigm, James Chastek recently wrote:
Liberalism is universalist through taking human equality as self-evident, with the equality understood as a universal distribution of rights. … On this account, those without resources also play a role, but since all have equal access to resources by their innate rights, some other cause explains the manifest inequality in things, which can only be a social structure, whether deliberately intended or just blindly systemic: man is born free and is everywhere in chains. The job of liberal universalism therefore requires identifying some source of evil, i.e. inequality, among social actors, and working to expose, discredit, and dethrone it. …
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